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Selma Lagerlöf
Selma Lagerlöf (1858–1940), Swedish author of Gösta Berlings saga and Nils Holgerssons underbara resa; first woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature (1909) and first woman in the Swedish Academy (1914).
Sema Kaygusuz
Sema Kaygusuz is a Turkish writer of stories, novels, essays, and plays, born in 1972 in Samsun, whose novel Yere Düşen Dualar won international prizes.
Semyon Nadson
Semyon Nadson (Семён Надсон) was a Russian poet whose melancholic civic verse made him the most popular lyric poet of the 1880s; he died of tuberculosis at 24.
Seni Saowaphong
Seni Saowaphong, or Sakchai Bamrungphong, was a Thai novelist and diplomat who was a key figure in the "art for life" movement, famous for reflecting social inequality in works like Peesat.
SenLinYu
SenLinYu, pseudonymous American fantasy author (she/they) of the Dramione fanfic Manacled; debut novel Alchemised (2025) became a #1 NYT bestseller with a seven-figure Legendary film deal.
Serbian Dictionary
The Serbian Dictionary (Serbian: Srpski rječnik) is the foundational dictionary of the modern Serbian language, compiled by language reformer Vuk Karadžić and published in Vienna in 1818 and 1852.
Sergei Dovlatov
Sergei Dovlatov (Сергей Довлатов) was a Russian writer and journalist who emigrated to New York in 1978 and wrote twelve books, including The Compromise and The Zone.
Sergei Lukyanenko
Sergei Vasilyevich Lukyanenko (Сергей Васильевич Лукьяненко), born 1968, Russian sci-fi and fantasy author of the Night Watch cycle, adapted into Russia's first blockbuster film (2004); also wrote Spectrum, Labyrinth of Reflections, youngest Aelita laureate (1999).
Sergei Yesenin (Сергей Александрович Есенин)
Sergei Yesenin (Сергей Александрович Есенин, 1895-1925), Russian lyric poet from Konstantinovo, Ryazan; founder-imagist, author of Radunitsa, Pugachev, Anna Snegina, The Black Man; married Isadora Duncan; died Leningrad 1925; widely translated and received worldwide.
Sergey Aksakov
Sergey Aksakov (Сергей Аксаков; 1791 to 1859) was a Russian writer and critic known for his autobiographical Family Chronicle trilogy, nature writing, and the fairy tale The Scarlet Flower.
Sergey Gorodetsky
Sergey Mitrofanovich Gorodetsky was a Russian and Soviet poet, translator, playwright, and critic who co-founded the acmeist movement with Nikolai Gumilev, active from 1907 to 1967.
Sérgio Buarque de Holanda
Sérgio Buarque de Holanda (1902–1982) was a Brazilian historian, literary critic, and journalist, best known for Raízes do Brasil (1936) and the concept of the homem cordial.
Sergio Chejfec
Sergio Chejfec (1956–April 2022) was an Argentine writer of novels, essays, and poetry, known for Los planetas and Mis dos mundos, who taught at New York University.
Sergio Pitol
Sergio Pitol Deméneghi was a Mexican writer, translator, and diplomat who served as ambassador to Czechoslovakia and won the Miguel de Cervantes Prize in 2005.
Sérgio Porto
Sérgio Porto (1923–1968), who wrote under the pseudonym Stanislaw Ponte Preta, was a Brazilian writer, journalist, and broadcaster whose satirical FEBEAPÁ chronicles mocked Brazil's military regime in the 1960s.
Serhiy Zhadan
Serhiy Zhadan (Сергій Жадан), born 1974 in Starobilsk and based in Kharkiv, is a Ukrainian poet and novelist whose books include Voroshilovgrad, Mesopotamia, and The Orphanage.
Sestigers
Die Sestigers, "Those of the Sixties," were a group of Afrikaans writers of the 1960s who broke literary conventions and became that literature's most influential movement of the twentieth century.
Seth Grahame-Smith
Seth Grahame-Smith (born 1976) is an American author and screenwriter known for the mashup novels Pride and Prejudice and Zombies and Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, and for The LEGO Batman Movie and It, distinct from journalist Graeme Smith.
Setsuko Koizumi (小泉節子)
Setsuko Koizumi (小泉節子, 1868-1932), also called Koizumi Setsu, was the Japanese wife of Lafcadio Hearn; his ghost-story retellings like Kwaidan drew on tales she told him, and she wrote Reminiscences of Lafcadio Hearn (1918).
Seven Scholars of Jian'an
The Seven Scholars of Jian'an (建安七子), also called the Seven Masters of Ye, were seven writers of the Jian'an era (196–220) at the end of China's Eastern Han dynasty.
Sevgi Soysal
Sevgi Soysal, also published as Sevgi Nutku and Sevgi Sabuncu, was a Turkish novelist whose fiction examined women's lives, class, and repression after Turkey's 1971 memorandum.
Sexuality of William Shakespeare
Sexuality of William Shakespeare: debate over the Bard's same-sex desire, centered on the 1609 sonnets to the Fair Youth and Dark Lady, Sonnet 20, Mr. W.H., and the absence of archival proof.
Seydou Badian Kouyaté
Seydou Badian Kouyaté, pen name Seydou Badian, was a Malian novelist and politician best known for his 1957 novel Sous l'orage and the Malian national anthem lyrics.
Sezai Karakoç
Sezai Karakoç (1933–2021) was a Turkish poet, essayist, and political activist born in Ergani, Diyarbakır, whose metaphysical poetry, Diriliş magazine, and resurrection school of thought made him a central figure in twentieth-century Turkish Islamic literature.
Sha Ting
Sha Ting (沙汀), born Yang Zhaoxi, was a Chinese fiction writer known for realist, satirical novels and stories set in the rural market towns of northwestern Sichuan.
Shaaban Robert
Shaaban Robert (Shaaban bin Robert, 1909–1962) was a Tanzanian Swahili poet, essayist, and novelist known as the "Father of Swahili", whose works include the utopian novels Kusadikika and Kufikirika.
Shabestari
Shabestari was a Persian Sufi poet of the early 14th century, born near Tabriz, best known for the Gulshan-i Raz, a principal text of Sufism.
Shafiq-ur-Rahman
Shafiq-ur-Rahman (شفیق الرحمٰن; 1920–2000) was a Pakistani Urdu humorist and physician who became a Major General in the Army Medical Corps and chaired the Pakistan Academy of Letters.
Shah Abdul Latif Bhittai
Shah Abdul Latif Bhittai (c. 1689 – 1752) was a Sindhi Sufi poet whose collected verse, the Shah Jo Risalo, is the foundational classic of Sindhi literature.
Shah Muhammad Marri
Shah Muhammad Marri (شاہ محمد مری) is a Pakistani Baloch scholar and historian at the University of Balochistan who has written over 100 Balochi books on Balochistan's history.